Eddie Perfect in line for a Tony award for work on Beetlejuice musical

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Wednesday, 1 May 2019 8:45AM

Adam Driver and Bryan Cranston lead 2019 Tony Award Nominations

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VideoAdam Driver and Bryan Cranston will compete against each other to be named Best Actor at the 2019 Tony Awards.

Australian performer and composer Eddie Perfect is up for a Tony award.

He is one of six nominations for best original score (music and lyrics) for his work on the stage adaptation of the movie Beetlejuice at the prestigious US theatre awards.

The creator of Warnie, The Musical and star of television shows Offspring and Play School is one of six nominees in the category.

Beetlejuice, which opened on Broadway on April 25, snared seven other nominations, including best musical.

The musical Hadestown, which intertwines the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and Hades and Persephone, earned a leading 14 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, followed by the jukebox musical Ain't Too Proud, built around songs by the Temptations, which received a dozen nominations.

The best-play nominees are the Northern Irish drama The Ferryman, from Jez Butterworth; James Graham's Ink about Rupert Murdoch; Taylor Mac's Broadway debut, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy; and Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me.

Nominees for best actor in a play include Paddy Considine from The Ferryman, Bryan Cranston in Network, Jeff Daniels in To Kill a Mockingbird, Adam Driver from Burn This and Jeremy Pope in Choir Boy.

The category of best actress in a play includes Annette Bening in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, Laura Donnelly in The Ferryman, Elaine May in The Waverly Gallery, Janet McTeer in Bernhardt/Hamlet, Laurie Metcalf in Hillary and Clinton and Schreck from What the Constitution Means to Me.

The awards will be presented June 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City and be hosted by James Corden.